Photography

DIY: Making Your Own Gray Cards. Most cameras are capable of creating ‘acceptably good’ white balance on your photos.

And even if they’re failing, you can make a pretty decent guess for what you think the white balance should have been in post production. But what if you want to take the guesswork out of the equation, and get perfect white balance every time? The professionals use something called a ‘gray card’ (or ‘grey card’, depending on where in the world you learned to write English). The name says it all: it’s a gray piece of card or plastic that you can use to balance your photographs. Finding yourself a gray card Does that sounds a bit high tech? The silver on the Macbook Pro is relatively neutral, and can be used as a grey card You can use anything that is neutrally coloured, but we would recommend using something that’s light gray – it gives the camera the best colour reading, and it makes it easier to do your balancing in post production, too. How to Take Beautiful Bokeh Christmas Images [With 39 Stunning Examples]

A Post By: Darren Rowse It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… and in our forums I’ve noticed more and more great Christmas images being shared – some of which feature a technique that is always popular at this time of year – Bokeh Christmas lights shots.

The technique takes a bit of experimenting and practice but is relatively simple to do. You need some Christmas lights and a camera lens with a reasonably ‘fast’ aperture (or a large aperture). The key is to shoot at the larger end of your available aperture – this throws the background (and foreground) of your shot out of focus and any Christmas lights in the foreground or background will become little balls of light. As you’ll see in most of the images featured in this series – the technique is particularly good if you also have some element in your shot that is in focus. You can make the little balls of light bigger by increasing the distance between your in focus subject and the out of focus lights in the background.

How to fake a wide-angle lens. A few weeks ago I was called upon to fill in as a real estate photographer.

It’s something I’d never done before and with basic equipment I was a bit hesitant. Nevertheless I gave it a shot, and with a bit of experimentation I found a way to ‘fake’ having a wide-angle lens. In this guide we’ll go through a makeshift method to taking wide-angle photographs with even the most basic equipment. In a few simple steps you can be taking incredibly spacious real estate photographs or expansive wide-angle panoramas with a standard camera and a stock lens. 1.

This is probably my favourite ‘trick of the trade’, normally reserved for panoramic photography. Indoors, this technique works remarkably well. Here are a few things to consider when taking these photographs: Avoid clipping significant objects: If there’s a window beaming with light in your scene or a complex object, try to keep it all in the one frame. 2. . - Open up your three photographs in Photoshop - File > Automate > Photomerge…

50 Excellent Photography-Related Tutorials. By Tomas Laurinavicius With the advent of affordable digital cameras and photo-editing software such as Photoshop, what used to be an expensive profession is more and more accessible to casual individuals.

There are many tutorials and guides on the web to help you become a photography master. This is a collection of 50 of the best tutorials and guides we could find for helping you capture better digital photos. 1. How to Capture Stunning Fine Art Landscape Photographs Learn how to compose beautiful monochromatic landscape photos through this easy-to-follow guide. 2. Process your photos to have a vintage-style appearance with the aid of this Photoshop tutorial video found on Abduzeedo. 3. HDR is a popular photo technique. 4. This tutorial aims to teach readers how to mimic photo-processing techniques inspired by popular photographer, Dave Hill. 5. Nothing comes close to the unpredictability of taking photos in urban landscapes. 6. 7. 8. 9.

How do you capture water beautifully? Understanding Exposure - SimCam - Film and Digital Camera Simulator - Photonhead.com.